* Venky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-15 04:36]: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:55:02AM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > Let me try and re-state my point in an unambiguous manner -- if > > > a project is open source, the only format relevant to a distribution > > > maintainer would be source code. If there is an exception to this > > > rule, I am not aware of it. > > > > (It's somewhat generous to call a tautology a rule.) > > Not really. There are reasons why distribution maintainers prefer > building from source, and that is to ensure quality and also because > each distribution's requirements differ. We do that with the SFW > consolidation. The default install prefix of most GNU applications > is /usr/local and we switch that to /usr or /usr/gnu. I was being polite. Let me go further and state that a solution that would somehow prefer software for which the source code was available is certainly incomplete or probably also incorrect.
> > As has been > > stated before, pkg(5) does not contain a build system by design--as a > > result, the practical problem of absorbing components from package > > publishers using both legacy packages and proto areas has been very > > straightforward. > > True, though I'd suspect a lot of it is because we have been > depending on the standardized build procedures currently used to > build the SVR4 packages. If we had to build from source all the > packages we distribute currently via pkg.opensolaris.org, the lack > of a standard build system would be felt more acutely. If you believe that we could convince all of the current System V package providers to just switch over directly, that's... interesting. Of course, since we know that we don't have unencumbered access to source for many of them, the scenario is irrelevant. I will let you have the last word, of course. - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
